The Sonnets Cxxix - The Expense Of Spirit In A Waste Of Shame Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGGThe expense of spirit in a waste of shame | A |
Is lust in action and till action lust | B |
Is perjur'd murderous bloody full of blame | A |
Savage extreme rude cruel not to trust | B |
Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight | C |
Past reason hunted and no sooner had | D |
Past reason hated as a swallow'd bait | C |
On purpose laid to make the taker mad | D |
Mad in pursuit and in possession so | E |
Had having and in quest to have extreme | F |
A bliss in proof and prov'd a very woe | E |
Before a joy propos'd behind a dream | F |
All this the world well knows yet none knows well | G |
To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell | G |
William Shakespeare
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